Faculty and Staff

Michelle Scott, LISW-CP

Michelle Grant Scott began teaching for the College of Social Work’s Master of Social
Work program in 2011. She has served as the Greenville Site Coordinator and student
faculty advisor since 2016. Scott’s previous experience as an instructor includes
teaching part-time at Clemson University, Winthrop University, the University of North
Carolina-Greensboro and North Carolina A&T University. She also maintains a small
private practice, providing consultation, clinical supervision and periodic counseling
services.

Scott’s teaching and research interests are related to clinical social work and direct
practice, crisis intervention, grief and loss, psychopathology, and psychodiagnostics.
Her professional clinical experience includes private practice counseling, inpatient
and outpatient home health and hospice care, developmental evaluation of young children,
and university-based and faith-based counseling. Her publications include articles
on clinical note-writing, women’s mental health issues, grief and loss, and a psychopathology
text book (in progress).

Scott earned her MSW from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Social
Work, with emphasis on families and children, and clinical work. She is a member of
the South Carolina Society for Clinical Social Work and a previous board member for
the National Association of Social Work North Carolina chapter.